Canada is consistent on Tuesday with a split at World Wheelchair Championship

Once again Team Canada finished the day strong at the 2025 World Wheelchair Curling Championship in Stevenston, Scotland. After a 10-5 loss to Team England Tuesday morning, the Canadians came back to the ice refreshed and bested Team Scotland 12-6.

Although the home team attracted the best crowd the Auchenharvie Leisure Centre has seen yet, Team Canada prevailed to take the win, starting in the first end by stealing three. The Scots came back with two the next end, but Canada scored another four points to finish the third.

The Scots kept pushing, but Team Canada earned the early concession with four in the seventh end.

“Gil called a really great game,” said Canadian fourth, Jon Thurston (Dunsford, Ont.), about Team Canada skip, Gilbert Dash (Kipling, Sask.). “The whole team threw really well, and playing the host team with the home crowd is always a fun match. Fortunately, we were able to get up on the scoreboard to start the game and quiet the crowd a little bit.”

A win was exactly what Canada needed after their encounter with Team England had a different finish. The 10-5 result does not give the Canadian team enough credit. It was down to the last few rocks when Canada had the chance to tie the game in the last end. Thurston made a difficult hit through a tricky port on quickly deteriorating ice conditions, but England’s skip, Stewart Pimblett, followed suit and was able to remove Canada’s single shot stone for a score of four.

“England played really well,” said Thurston. “It shows the time and hard work that they put into their program; they’re curling great, and it just didn’t go our way in this game.”

Thurston and Dash are joined on the ice by second Douglas Dean (Thunder Bay, Ont.), lead Collinda Joseph (Stittsville, Ont.), and fifth Chrissy Molnar (Trent Lakes, Ont.).

Team Canada’s record stands at 4-3, placing them in fourth place as of Tuesday afternoon.

On Wednesday, Canada will take on Team Slovakia at 4:30 a.m. and Team Sweden at 2:30 p.m. (all times Eastern).

All games will be available to watch live on the Curling Channel.

For live scores, standings, and statistics for the 2025 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, click here.